[Sequence: Piano & Clean Guitar Intro | Verse 1 | Pre-Chorus | Chorus | Verse 2 | Pre-Chorus | Chorus | Guitar Solo | Bridge | Final Chorus | Outro] [Intro | Piano and Clean Electric Guitar] [Verse 1] I heard somebody mention you the other night. Funny how a name can bring a whole room back to life. For a second I could see us like nothing ever changed. Then somebody kept talking... And the moment slipped away. [Pre-Chorus] We were young enough to think love had to last... To mean anything at all. But I know better now. [Chorus] WHAT WE HAD... WAS REAL. Whatever happened after can't change the way it felt. We don't have to still be together for me to know what we were. Some things don't have to last forever... To matter forever. And nobody... Nobody... Can take away what we had. [Instrumental | Clean Guitar Melody] [Verse 2] We said things when it ended I wish we'd never said. Turned years of loving one another into reasons to forget. For a while I let the anger tell me none of it was true. Like somehow I could lose the hurt... If I could lose the memory of you. [Pre-Chorus | Drums Begin Building] But the ending isn't everything. Goodbye doesn't get to own every day that came before. And I won't let it anymore. [Full Band Enters] [Chorus] WHAT WE HAD... WAS REAL! Whatever happened after can't change the way it felt! We don't have to still be together for me to know what we were! Some things don't have to last forever... TO MATTER FOREVER! And nobody... Nobody... Can take away what we had! [Guitar Solo | Soaring Melodic Lead] [Atmospheric Synths and Huge Drums] [Bridge | Music Pulls Back] I don't need you back. I don't need another chance. I don't need to change the way the story ends. I just needed time to understand... Losing you doesn't mean I have to lose who we were then. [Pause] You were part of my life. I was part of yours. And that still means something. [Drums Build] It always will. [Final Chorus | Full Arena Production] WHAT WE HAD... WAS REAL! Every touch, every promise, every night we thought we'd never lose! And even though forever wasn't ours to see through... I'd rather have those years and lose them... Than never have had you! WHAT WE HAD... WAS OURS! And the ending doesn't get to tear the beginning apart! Some things don't have to last forever... TO LIVE FOREVER IN YOUR HEART! So wherever you are tonight... Whatever life has given you... I hope sometimes you remember... What we had... Was beautiful too. [Outro | Extended Melodic Guitar] [Male Vocal | Soft] We didn't make forever. [Pause] We made something real. [Lead Guitar Answers] And after all these years... That's enough. [Long Guitar Outro] [Final Piano Chord] [End]
